1958
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Classic Hitchcock film which I had never seen before. As with all Hitchcock film, every shot is perfect and has a purpose. The story was interesting and dark, as I expected. Jimmy Stewart's character, Scottie, is an ex-detective who suffers from vertigo, which was the reason for his early retirement after he witnesses someone fall and couldn't save him because of his fear. When an old friend asks Scottie to follow his wife because he was afraid something bad would happen to her, he becomes obsessed and in love. When she falls to her death, he is devastated. But nothing is quite as it seems...
Trivia:
The film was unavailable for decades because its rights (together with four other pictures of the same period) were bought back by Alfred Hitchcock and left as part of his legacy to his daughter. They've been known for long as the infamous "Five Lost Hitchcocks" amongst film buffs, and were re-released in theatres around 1984 after a 30-year absence. The others are The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Rear Window(1954), Rope (1948), and The Trouble with Harry (1955).
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